I am contacting you in relation to your interactive website called 'Taking Liberties' and its section on the Cornish home-rule movement.

I wrote to you about this subject a few weeks ago but as yet I have received no response.

First can I say that it was encouraging to see the subject of the Cornish home-rule movement being treated by the British Museum. Well done and many thanks.

I note that in the spoken presentation the Stannary Parliaments are mentioned.

However I was surprised by the fact that the Duchy of Cornwall and its historic and contemporary constitutional relationship to the territory of Cornwall is not mentioned once.

This website www.duchyofcornwall.eu is a fully referenced
exploration of this subject. One would hope that an academic institution such as the British Museum could treat this subject in an open and accurate way.

This leads me to my questions. Why was the Duchy and its
relationship to Cornwall not mentioned? Who was consulted on the creation of this 'Cornish Independence' section? What information and guidance did they provide?

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It strikes me as very odd that the Duchy of Cornwall is not mentioned once in "Taking Liberties Cornish Independence" as it is the cornerstone of the particular constitutional status of Cornwall that is mentioned.

I suppose we'll just have to write off as yet another one of those occasions where the DoC and its legal constitutional relationship to the territory and people of Cornwall is deemed to close to the bone and swept under the carpet.

If the British Library should ever change its policy of turning a blind eye to this subject then a good starting point would be the www.duchyofcornwall.eu website.